A preliminary study of soil analysis of Sonmiani, Gadani and Kund Malir coasts of District Lasbela, Balochistan, Pakistan
| Autor: | Bano, Azra, Zahid, Muhammad Aleem, Arsalan, A., Abdullah, Muhammad, Khan, Asadullah, Saleem, Gohar, Ahmed, Noor |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | pjms_ku@yahoo.com University of Karachi. Marine Reference Collection and Resource Centre |
| Popis: | The purpose of the soil analysis is to study the beach characteristics of different coasts of Balochistan. Three sites Sonmiani, Gadani and Kund Malir were selected. The Gaddani coast is known as sandy cum rocky shore, Sonmiani as sandy cum muddy shore while Kund Malir is sandy. Three different stations were selected on each site for sampling. At each station, five different samples were collected. At all three sites, the amount of medium and fine sand showed greater amount and very fine sand depicted lesser. The results showed that soil samples collected from three coasts mostly have highest fraction of find sand and lowest portions of very fine sand. At Sonmiani the soil composition is fine sand and very fine sand as compared to Gadani where the soil is of fine sand and medium sand and at Kund Malir the soil is of fine sand along with medium sand but very fine sand also present. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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